Man, 35, held as 30 kg of cannabis resin found in Montpellier store flat
Montpellier's narcotics squad arrested a 35-year-old Moroccan man on 11 October 2022 after spotting him dealing drugs outside a bar on the place Renaudel in the Celleneuve district. A search of the "nourrice" store flat he worked from found 30 kg of cannabis resin, cocaine, 16,200 euros in cash and two handguns, and he was held in police custody.
🇫🇷 Place Renaudel, Celleneuve, Montpellier, Hérault · France
Montpellier’s narcotics squad arrested a 35-year-old Moroccan man on 11 October
2022 after spotting him dealing drugs on the terrace of a bar on the place
Renaudel in the Celleneuve district.[1]
The inquiry began with a tip-off about a cannabis and cocaine trade in the
historic heart of Celleneuve, naming a suspect who worked from the place Mansart
out of a “nourrice” flat, a store flat used to hold drugs and the traffickers’
supplies.[1]Police kept the suspect under surveillance before stopping him,
and at his home they seized3,000 euros in cash.[1]In the store flat, opened
with support from the departmental public security directorate’s forced-entry
team after the dog squad identified it, officers found 30 kg of cannabis resin,
50 g of cocaine, 13,200 euros in cash and two handguns, one a 7.65-calibre
automatic with a loaded magazine hidden in a printer.[1]
The suspect, a 35-year-old Moroccan national, was questioned in garde à vue,
French police custody, and should be brought before the courts.[1]The case
was opened by Montpellier’s narcotics squad on a tip-off about drug trafficking
in the historic heart of Celleneuve, a district of the city in Hérault.[1]
Photos and video
The flat in Celleneuve where the drugs were found, captioned as the apartment dedicated to the trade and credited DR (rights reserved).Photo details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
30 kg
Cash confiscated
EUR 16,200
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish (30 kg)
Activity
Sale, Trafficking
Setting
Home, Street or public place
Case stage
Under investigation
Force
No force reported
Region
Hérault
Sources
Midi Libremidilibre.frFRMontpellier : 30 kilos de cannabis saisis dans un appartement entièrement dédié au trafic - midilibre.fr
Open questions the AI reported
The accounts give no date for the search of the store flat; it is placed with the 11 October arrest.
No street value, charge sheet or later court outcome was published; the account stops at the suspect's transfer to the courts.
The cocaine seizure of 50 g is reported but is not a cannabis quantity and is left out of the figures.
The suspect is described only by age and nationality, with no name published.
Midi Libre's article is partly behind a subscription prompt, but its report of the arrest and seizure was readable.
The Midi Libre picture credited DR shows the flat rather than the resin itself, so it is listed as a linked photo.
Midi Libre renders the cash figures with a thin space (13,200 euros in the store flat plus 3,000 euros at the man's home); the figures record 16,200 euros in total.
Only one source is cited: an Actu.fr report of the same arrest was opened during research and reports the suspect's appearance before an investigating judge, but it is not captured with this submission and so is not used for facts or quotations.
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